Device for elevating trunks.



No. 716,666. Patented Dec. 36, I902.

c. w. BLIFTGN.

DEVIGE FUR ELEVATING TBUNKS.

[Application filed June 8. 1901.)

(60 Model.)

messes 2412 41265 z w UNITED STATES CLIFTON WHARTON CLIFTON, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR' ELEVATING TRUNKS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letterslatent No. 716,866, dated December 30, 1902.

Application filed June 8,1901. Serial No. 63,705. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLIFTON WHARTON CLIF- TON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of theborough of Manhattan, city, county, andState of New York, have invented an Improved Device for ElevatingTrunks, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists of certain improvements in the construction ofsupportingframes for trunks of the general character described andclaimed in the Letters Patent granted to me August 28, 1888, No.388,634, and also May 8, 1894, No. 519,528.

The object of my present invention is to simplify the construction andoperation of such attachments, at the same time making them performpractically the same service, excepting the clasping of the trunk-lid,and to provide a trunk with a supporting device of a simple, strong, andinexpensive character permitting access to the interior without steepingor bending when packing, unpack ing, or using the same. Iattain theseobjects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inWhich Figure l is a perspective View of a trunk in position on thesupports. Fig. Zisa perspective View of one of the supports. Fig. 3shows the bearing-bar. Fig. 4 shows the couplingrod. Fig. 5 is anenlarged detail view showing the manner of connecting the bearing-bar tothe standards. Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation of one support, taken ona line intermediate between the two standards of the supports.

The supports F F are each constructed with side standards S,connectedtogether by means of coupling-rods O and a hearing-bar B. The bars 0have screw-threaded ends ct at the inner ends of which are the nuts 0,which bear against the inner faces of the standards S. The coupling-rodsare secured to the standards by means of thumb-nuts b b, which arescrewed onto the screw-threaded ends of the coupling-rods, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2. The bearing-rod B is constructed somewhat similarly tothe coupling-rods C; but the nuts 0 are dispensed with, shoulders beingformed by reducing the bar at its extremities a, and these shouldershearing, as do the nuts 0, against the inner faces of the standards S.The reduced extremities a. of the bar 13 are screw-threaded and passedthrough holes in the standards, these holes being so positioned that theuppermost part of the bar will be flush with the standards S S at theirupper ends,-so that the trunk may rest not only on the standards, butalso upon the bars B B throughout their lengths.

The bearing-bars are secured to the stand ards by means of thethumb-nuts b.

In order to relieve the reduced extremities of the bearing-rods of theWeight of the trunk, I provide the seats H H, projecting inwardly fromthe standards and on which 'the bars rest. r

Iclaim as my invention and desire to secure by- Letters Patent- Inasupporting device for trunks, the combination with a bearing-bar, oftwo opposite supporting-standards for said bar, said standards beingflush with said bar at their upper ends, and two rods connecting saidstandards together, and a supporting-seat on each of said standards andengaging under said bearing-bar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CLIFTON \VHARTON CLIFTON.

